Virginia E. Sloan founded The Constitution Project in 1997 and is now its President and serves on its Board of Directors. Ms. Sloan previously served as Executive Director of the Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. For 14 years, she was a counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, including several years as counsel to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.

The Constitution Project is a politically independent think tank established to promote and defend constitutional safeguards. More information about the Constitution Project is available at constitutionproject.org.